What Motivates Bureaucrats? - Politics and Administration During the Reagan Years

Informationen zum Autor Marissa Martino Golden Klappentext "Every once in a while somebody has to get the bureaucracy by the neck and shake it loose and say! 'Stop doing what you're doing.'" -- Ronald Reagan How did senior career civil servants react to Ronald Reagan's attempt to redirect policy and increase presidential control over the bureaucracy? What issues molded their reactions? What motivates civil servants in general? How should they be managed and how do they affect federal policies? To answer these questions! Marissa Martino Golden offers us a glimpse into the world of our federal agencies. What Motivates Bureaucrats? tells the story of a group of upper-level career civil servants in the Reagan administration at the Environmental Protection Agency! the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division! the Food and Nutrition Service! and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The book reveals that most career civil servants were usually responsive to executive direction -- even with a president attempting to turn agency policy 180 degrees from its past orientation. By delving deeply into the particular details of Reagan's intervention into the affairs of upper-level career civil servants! Golden also fulfills her broader mission of improving our understanding of bureaucratic behavior in general! explaining why the bureaucracy is controllable and highlighting the limits of that control. Zusammenfassung Tells the story of a group of upper-level career civil servants in the Reagan administration at the Environmental Protection Agency! the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division! the Food and Nutrition Service! and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Bureaucratic Responsiveness and the Administrative Presidency2. A Framework for Analysis3. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Car Nuts and Caution4. The Food and Nutrition Service: Limited Opportunity! Limited Resistance5. The Civil Rights Division: Lawyers Who Love to Argue6. The Environmental Protection Agency: A Tale of Two Reagan Administrations7. Lessons from the Reagan YearsPostscript: Looking to the FutureAppendices ...

Product details

• Authors: Marissa Martino Golden, Golden Marissa Martino
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2000
• EAN: 9780231106979
• ISBN: 978-0-231-10697-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics into the 21st Century; Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 21st Century
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Central / national / federal government, Political structure and processes